Student1
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 822392079
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Austin, TX, USA
- Phone
- 5125601502
- Rating
- 55
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $840,006
- Expenses
- $787,383
- Assets
- $675,383
- Liabilities
- $54,446
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Edward Comer (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Kristen Reynolds (Exec Director): $212,504 total reported compensation
- Edward Comer (President): $172,167 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Student1 partners with state agencies, school districts, and organizations to develop a new class of software to enable a student's entire success team to provide informed, coordinated, and personalized education, services, and support.
What it reported doing in 2024
We concentrated our efforts around four main areas:* Make Data Work: Enabling a community of connections requires communication, collaboration, and a sharing of knowledge and data in a framework of managed security and access.* Focused Collaboration: Equipping a student's community of individuals to collaborate and communicate across organization and language barriers.* Student Data Backpack: Providing a portable, secure, private backbone of a student's data to facilitate constructive conversations and reinforcing data sharing with appropriate permissions among the various stakeholders in the student's growth and success.* Trusted Broker: Establishing trusted connections to data across education agencies, service providers, other government agencies, and community organizations.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 55
- Transparency & Controls: 66
- Accountability: 52
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 59.8%; rating input score 60
- Program expense ratio: 63.8%; rating input score 64
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 50%; rating input score 50; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 6.3%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.86; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 48.9%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -6.5% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 59.8% of revenue deployed · 63.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 2 of 4 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $503K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $213K · 4 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 20 of 20 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 50/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 45/100.